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Girl, 17, jailed for ringing phone
Newsday ^ | Rick Brand

Posted on 11/20/2004 10:02:03 AM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak

A ringing cell phone landed a 17-year-old Patchogue girl facing drug charges in a jail cell this week after an angry district court judge sentenced her to 21 days for contempt.

Mariela Acevedo of 21 Hammond St. incurred the wrath of District Court Judge Salvatore Alamia on Tuesday. As she awaited her hearing, an electronic device went off in Alamia's Central Islip courtroom and he warned everyone to shut off all cell phones and pagers or face contempt charges.

"If you don't know how to shut it off, go outside and introduce it to the heel of your shoe, he said according to a transcript.

When Acevedo's phone subsequently sounded, Alamia called the teenager forward and asked, "Did you think I was playing with you?"

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cellphones; courts; flamewar; judge; longisland
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To: Utmost Certainty
"The punishment she recieved should have been solely limited to the verdict (45 days) the judge rendered on that said drug charge. The additional 21 days was out of context of the crime itself. "

She didn't get 21 "extra" days. She's serving the penalty for the contempt charge at the same time as the 45 days she's serving on the drug charge and will spend no "additional" days in jail.

201 posted on 11/20/2004 12:37:59 PM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: nothingnew
I see arrogant, tax paid judges, drunk with power, that pick and choose which laws to enforce.

Millions enter our country illegally, at will, routinely, and the government stands winking and nodding yet the government, ie: Judges, law enforcement, congress etc demands and forces us to pay billions for this lawlessness, or else we are sent to jail too.

Do you not see a broken picture here? Do you not see the ultimate, glaring hypocrisy here?

202 posted on 11/20/2004 12:38:04 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: orangelobster
the judge should be thrown in jail for being a jerk.

I'll defer to the judge on this one. Ever tried to keep control of a crimminal courtroom. While some are no doubt innocent a lot are rude, arrogant, and downright annoying.

Gotta hold a hard line.

If you are 17 and don't know how to turn off your cell phone you are lying...
203 posted on 11/20/2004 12:40:20 PM PST by festus (Old growth timbers make the best campfires....)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
But that was a nice attempt to bring race into it, like any good leftist would.

Sure, you're not a racist. You just have a one track mind. BTW, a liberal is someone bases his personal responsibility and morality on what other people do. They say, "Why should I have to follow the law if others are getting away with it?" Looks like you do too.

204 posted on 11/20/2004 12:40:40 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: Joe Hadenuf

This judge is clearly unstable and believes his own press. It will only be a matter of time before he turns up with a suction pump under his cloak, porn on a government computer or dating an underaged prostitute. But, I guess that will be okay because he's a judge. Anything a judge does is okay. Order must be kept.


205 posted on 11/20/2004 12:42:04 PM PST by vigilo
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To: Asphalt
I DO but i don't think YOU do... been there done that, once upon a time i couldn't pay bail and had to sit in jail 3000 miles from home for a week till the case was dismissed in court, i.e. not guilty.

not everybody here is 14 years old

206 posted on 11/20/2004 12:42:07 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Ajnin
What's really scary is all the people on here that don't know how to turn off a cell phone.

Well then this will make you feel better.......

http://www.live-shot.com/
207 posted on 11/20/2004 12:45:24 PM PST by festus (Old growth timbers make the best campfires....)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
Do you not see the ultimate, glaring hypocrisy here?

Of course I do. I'm with you on that. However, there are rules that the rest of us "civilized" people must live by. A courtroom is sancrosanct, whether it be ruled by an asshole judge or an honset judge. That's not really the point here, is it?

I've met a few judges that are contemptible, but if you're too stupid to know how to shut your cellphone off, you shouldn't have one. That's all I'm saying.

FMCDH(BITS)

208 posted on 11/20/2004 12:46:26 PM PST by nothingnew (Kerry is gone...perhaps to Lake Woebegone)
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To: vigilo

"It will only be a matter of time before he turns up with a suction pump under his cloak"

that's funny. I forgot about the suction pump judge.


209 posted on 11/20/2004 12:46:48 PM PST by orangelobster
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To: Joe Hadenuf
your straw man argument is getting old... nobody is saying that illegal immigration isn't bad or that we don't wish it was being more aggressively enforced, but THIS JUDGE has NOTHING to do with what you are abgassin on about!!! if this judge let illegals go only to send her to jail that'd be one thing but you are using apples and oranges just to argue.
210 posted on 11/20/2004 12:50:28 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Ladysmith
Ad hominem remarks will get you nowhere.
211 posted on 11/20/2004 12:54:28 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: Dog Gone
I have a clue. What I didn't have is the desire to click through. Was this article important to log in FR? Is there a limitation to our use of the whole article? Could the poster have printed a later segment, which refuted the clear statement of the article's first sentence, indicating she landed in jail with a 21 day sentence?
212 posted on 11/20/2004 12:57:17 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: Ladysmith
Jail, not prison, you dodo.

You insult someone who read and took at face value what you posted as an excerpt of the article of this thread.

Reminds me of the line from Animal House, "You f----d up. You trusted us."

(BTW, is there a prohibition against posting the entire article?)

Here is what I wrote:

It is that judge that should be thrown in jail. No one should send a 17 YEAR OLD GIRL to go shack up with the bull-daggers for 21 days, for forgetting her cell phone was on.

Please do better, next time.

213 posted on 11/20/2004 1:02:05 PM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: Joe Hadenuf

I hope this young woman can turn her life around and be with people who will show her love through some kind of discipline. Sometimes that is all that is needed...love combined with discipline.


214 posted on 11/20/2004 1:03:13 PM PST by cubreporter
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To: unspun

Hardly ad hominem. To suggest she will "shack up with the bull-daggers for 21 days" while in jail is ridiculous.


215 posted on 11/20/2004 1:04:04 PM PST by Ladysmith (November 2, 2004: Taking America BACK!!!)
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To: orangelobster
What's just as scary is that people are defending this guy. If I was convicted for everytime I forgot to turn off the cell ringer I would have a lengthy criminal record by now.

You mean that everytime you've forgotten to turn off your cell phone ringer, you were in a court of law and you had been warned by the judge to turn the ringer off? Wow, you must spend a lot of time in courtrooms!

216 posted on 11/20/2004 1:05:01 PM PST by usadave
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To: Chode
but THIS JUDGE has NOTHING to do with it.

Yeah, I've heard that over and over.

The judges, congress, the President, law enforcement, mayors, they are all innocent, and have nothing to do with this epic lawlessness. Yet if you fail to pay your taxes, to pay for this epic lawlessness, you can be damn sure, they are coming after *you* with force.

BA! I tire of this massive, glaring government hipocracy and their endless lies.

217 posted on 11/20/2004 1:05:10 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: Dan from Michigan
If I'm going to get 21 days for BS, I'll punch the judge in the mouth and get my 'time's worth".

Yeah, and then you'll get charged with a felony. Then, sometime after you're convicted, you'll likely hear a prison guard say "Dan, I'd like to introduce you to your new cellmate, Bubba".

218 posted on 11/20/2004 1:13:33 PM PST by usadave
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To: Chode

You wus serious bout that?

219 posted on 11/20/2004 1:15:16 PM PST by pandemoniumreigns
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To: unspun
Whew, a lighthearted tongue-in-cheek hazing really got to you. You'd never survive around my brothers and myself. ;o) In any case, I do sincerely apologize.

However, I still stand by my opinions on this and want to emphasize that jail is nothing compared to prison. She'll be fine in there and can count herself blessed for not being in prison - yet.

220 posted on 11/20/2004 1:20:51 PM PST by Ladysmith (November 2, 2004: Taking America BACK!!!)
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